Contributors

Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb is the author of the chapbook, Shapes That Stay (Kelsay Books, 2021). Her work has appeared in The Midwest Quarterly, About Place Journal, The Conium Review, Earth’s Daughters, Eastern Iowa Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, Medical Literary Messenger, Clockhouse, AJN: The American Journal of Nursing, Terrain.org, and many other journals, with work forthcoming in Slipstream and elsewhere. She holds an interdisciplinary MA and has served in various capacities as an educator, a researcher, and an editor.

Zary Fekete was shortlisted for our 1st Anniversary Short Story Contest and has worked as a teacher in Hungary, Moldova, Romania, China, and Cambodia, lives and works as a writer in Minnesota, has been featured in various publications including Zoetic Press, Bag of Bones Press, and Mangoprism, has a debut chapbook of short stories out from Alien Buddha Press and a novelette (In the Beginning) out from ELJ Publications, as well as a debut novella forthcoming in early 2024 by DarkWinter Press. Zary enjoys books, podcasts, and long, slow films. Twitter: @ZaryFekete

Zeke Jarvis (he/him/his) is a Professor of English at Eureka College. His work has appeared in Moon City Review, Posit, and KNOCK, among other places. His books include, So Anyway..., In A Family Way, The Three of Them, Antisocial Norms, and It's Haunted! His website is zekedotjarvis.wordpress.com

Zeph (they/them) is one of the many trans-youth who seek an escape. They have been previously published in The Hemlock, and once ran an amateur circus.

paul Bluestein is a physician and a blues musician He lives in Connecticut near a beach where he finds quiet time to think about the past, and wonder about the future. In addition to poems and short stories that have appeared in a wide variety of online and print publications, he has had two books of poetry published - TIME PASSAGES and FADE TO BLACK.